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...rely, since it can be changed any day or any moment." The opposition saw Nkrumah's proposal as just one more step toward the complete abolition of the regional assemblies in favor of an all-powerful central government. Nkrumah frankly agreed; the regional assemblies, he said, were "a rape on Mother Ghana," and had produced a "leprous baby." Opposition M.P.s cried, "What's the hurry? What's the hurry?" as Nkrumah rammed through a second reading of the bill. With debate so curtailed, the opposition announced it would hold a public meeting of protest. But when...
...buying pictures, and putting her servants on short rations so that she could do it. Her greatest caprice, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, is a Venetian palazzo on The Fenway in the midst of Boston, containing some of the world's best pictures (among them Titian's Rape of Europa...
...Gradually Fishbelly sees that the old man is using the white authorities as surely as they are using him. The alliance disgusts him, and when the whole nasty business blows up, Tyree is ruthlessly killed by the police, and Fishbelly spends two years in prison on a trumped-up rape charge. Freed but still fearful, he flees to Paris...
...respect of lawyers and the U.S. Justice Department for his solid, keenly reasoned opinions, showed a flair for casting opinions in clear and forceful English. Wrote Judge Stewart, upholding the habeas corpus appeal of a prisoner who had been whisked before a judge late at night, convicted of rape on the basis of a forced confession, and sentenced to life without benefit of counsel: "The prompt and vigorous administration of the criminal law is to be commended and encouraged. But swift justice demands more than just swiftness...
Next in a remarkable cast of lechers is Matteo Brigante, a shrewd, brutal ex-sailor whose racketeering take has made him a rich man; he really runs the village He too is after Marietta-and he frankly prefers rape to acquiescence. Among the prominent townspeople in Boss Brigante's pocket is the chief of police, Attilio, a fine figure of a man who has at one time or another seduced most of the prominent women in town in Brigante's apartment. Only Judge Alessandro, a scholarly humanist, refuses to play Brigante's way. But the judge...